How to Restore USB Drive to Full Capacity (2023)

[@nikyepstillme7118]

Very well explained and very informative video. I've watched many videos on this over the years. My brain didn't want to work so I searched how to restore ssd to original size and I saw this video and clicked on it. Very glad that I did bc instead of just saying open cmd and copy and paste blah blah blah u actually explained what I should do and the different file systems/types and what they do or are used for. Thank u for that and keep doing more bro. Definitely got a new subscriber right here!

[@filipjtech]

Thank you for the thoughtful words. I really appreciate it. I'm glad I was able to explain the problem and help you solve it. That is why I keep making videos like this. I can't be the only one who has computer related issues

[@razu_]

Thank you so much! This video is so underrated. You deserve more views! Keep the videos man!

[@filipjtech]

Thank you for the kind words

[@Hey_BK]

Thank you! And, thank you for the easy and straight to the point instructions. 😄

[@thomasroberts4907]

Excellent job Filip ! This has bothered me for years wondering why my drives only showed 32GB. You're process worked flawlessly. Many thanks..

[@Laughableexplorer]

Thanks,I have been trying to fix my USB forever and your video saved the day

[@XavierRadić_NZL]

Thanks, most clear, understanding and helpful. 💜💜

[@drop8870]

Here in 2024 and i just want to say this still works flawlessly thank you!

[@niskander1st]

Super Instructions. Great Video.

[@filipjtech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Harmony-31]

After clicking enter, after "create partition primary" "disk is uninitialized, initializing it to GPT" pops up then it succeeded in creating the specified partition. The drive all of a sudden disappears. How to fix this problem?

[@thmbeta5352]

Thank you bro, I’ve had 2Tb of storage for months now but it would only say I have 30. This helped me be able to use the storage. Thanks for saving me a lot of money

[@filipjtech]

Glad I could help

[@TzToke-Jad]

Much appreciated. Almost download some 3rd party formatting garbageware because tech websites just promote any trash software for a quick penny. This was like 60 seconds of work. Thank you again.

[@RustyBoi-21]

bro thank you so much this was so quick and easy so now i can store my files thank you so much!!!!! 👍👍

[@filipjtech]

Glad it helped

[@alexandreconte7916]

perfect, straight to the point, solved my issue flawlessly

[@filipjtech]

Glad it worked out!

[@mitrooo3759]

So great explained ….. so helpful and easy

[@filipjtech]

You're welcome !

[@forgivenessseeker770]

THANKS MAN IT IS SO EASY WITH YOUR EXPLAINATION WAS HELPFUL

[@filipjtech]

You're welcome!

[@EnderEclipz]

Thanks, this was a great, straight forward tutorial. Easy to follow as well.

[@stratobungle]

Thanks! I was feeling pretty silly for a moment there - I thought I got ripped off as I had bought a 512GB PNY Pro Elite V2 10Gbps drive and before checking the capacity I used it as a Windows Recovery drive... and thought, "That's strange - why is this thing only 32GB???" - Now I know! Already fixed it using your video, as I needed the full capacity to do some large file moves. Much appreciated!

[@filipjtech]

That is a big chunk of missing storage. Glad this video helped you out

[@stratobungle]

@@filipjtech Definitely!

[@emmugomes]

Through your video my issue is resolved. Thank you very much.

[@filipjtech]

Great!

[@missjenniferd1]

thank you, this was very helpful to me, and worked for me perfectly, I appreciate you!!

[@mrgames-Will]

Thanks for this video buddy. I kept buying new USB sticks thinking I was being sold fake sticks!

[@filipjtech]

No problem 👍

[@jimthrowaway]

@@filipjtech His post is *not a joke* . . . I know how he feels . . . I went thru this myself with some well respected name brands . . . Thanks ! !

[@hrtbreaker27]

I just wanted to tell you how much you helped me and how grateful i am bro. Thank you so much!

[@fernandatages7308]

Greatly helpful video! Thanks! ( I had to do the create partition step twice tho. First time I did it showed zero GB and I thought I had just destroyed it haha. But I did the process again and its back to life)

[@AbdulAhad-in7ph]

this video was very helpfull. thanks bro.

[@filipjtech]

You're very welcome 🙏

[@Himax007]

What's the actual size of your pendrive? I mean the value mentioned on the package.

[@filipjtech]

128GB. It was down to 30GB after I downloaded Windows 10 on it

[@Sprogster]

Fixed 2 usbs this way. Worked great!

[@ChristianAnderson-gm3fp]

what about for Mac? my Sandisk drive is driving me nuts

[@viktoriakosteski9462]

Very informative! Thank you!! 👍🏻

[@filipjtech]

Glad you enjoyed it! ;)

[@jeremyaberdeen7136]

Genius you are. I use to have the same problem, thanks to you everything has been sorted out. Cheers. Happy New Year.

[@AestheticLina]

Nice and precise as always, please can you make a video on how to screen record on your laptop, like your doing now.

[@filipjtech]

I use obs studio

[@AestheticLina]

@@filipjtech ok thank you

[@davefarrell7162]

Great vid and commentary, thank you so much.

[@zarathustra8789]

Excellent video mate, thanks a lot.

[@YOUTOOCANSEE]

if you can? make a simple video, how to make a simple password lock on usb flash drive to add some security ? would be great !!

[@filipjtech]

Great Idea. I will work on it

[@nashmanuel]

You literally the best,thumbs up for you!

[@filipjtech]

Thank you

[@Laszlo-Szabo]

THANK YOU! I had a broken USB drive after I used Ventoy to turn it into a Boot USB. Ventoy split the stick into partitions and it was simply not functioning as a normal flash drive anymore. Until now haha!

[@dart-rblx]

Wow thanks so much man, I was wondering what happened and it was only showing 156mb thanks for your help man!

[@palshepard417]

Awesome guide thank you!

[@filipjtech]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Xenon_177]

Thanks, this helped a lot. Do you know why ut drops to 32gb after using it as a boot drive? The same thing happened to me

[@jimthrowaway]

same here. good brand too. samsung. a 64 gb used as installer boot-usb | afterward dropped to 32gb when reformatted.| At least now I know the fix.

[@TheKinginRed]

Thank you very much for the help and extra info! Saved my 500 gb usb

[@jesus.portilla]

Very well explained man. Cheers!

[@mduron74]

Worth to save this video. Very easy and Excelent explanation. Thank you

[@ngominhhoang6523]

Thank you so much! Wish you all the best of luck, brother!

[@ricardohayes2790]

What model keyboard are you using. Thanks

[@filipjtech]

Basic $10 keyboard

[@wilsonwong753]

wait that was so useful and I learned something! Great job!

[@georgiaherrera6990]

Just wanted to say thank you! Finally transferred my movies! Informative and clear! Thank you so much >:3

[@filipjtech]

Glad I could help!

[@balabanionel7094]

Many thanks. Easy and well explained.

[@filipjtech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nearpar]

VERY GOOD VIDEO THANK YOU

[@filipjtech]

Thank you too

[@neissiebocu1832]

This was a great video - thank you !! Yes, please show us how to do this on a Mac also.

[@filipjtech]

Thank you. I'll take a look at how it's done on a Mac

[@wilfredsmith]

Did it for me thank you !

[@filipjtech]

Glad it worked out!

[@forgedinfire8137]

Very helpful. thank you

[@prasadmungekar4225]

Nicely Explained 👍Thankyou very much

[@lieslrust4760]

Thanks for this, very helpful, I almost binned my usb then followed your video😊

[@filipjtech]

Glad it helped

[@YoLevin]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@CathannSmith]

Thank you for such an informative video, and it was a lifesaver for me.

[@YOUTOOCANSEE]

perfect perfect perfect !!! super great ?? can not thank you enough

[@filipjtech]

Glad you like it!

[@FixthisCD]

Thank you, used the same principles to restore a external hard drive. Just had to 'format' after clean because my drive disappeared from available drives

[@codeezy__]

wow bless this man it works in 2024

[@umlaudanum]

Thank you so much. I had this same happen to a 64 GB USB drive that I used to install Windows. Wonder why it does that.

[@filipjtech]

The drive is partioned when you install Windows. That is why we complete wipe the drive and repartion it

[@umlaudanum]

​@@filipjtechThanks! This was good to know. I also updated my bios with a usb drive, and I had to partition it for that, so all this stuff was very useful knowledge. All in all, I learned a lot from this video, and because of this video. :D

[@TARUNBIR]

thanks bro it really workes thanks for uploading the video I really appreciate your great work...

[@filipjtech]

It's my pleasure

[@hashemfashionhouse4200]

Hey Filip Tech! I really benefited a lot from this video. I am from Bangladesh... Thanks

[@filipjtech]

Glad it you liked it!

[@Rahul_Rao_001]

Great video mate.

[@filipjtech]

Thanks for the visit

[@alessandroferrando2383]

Thank you very much for this video!

[@filipjtech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AutomateInnovate]

Thanks a lot bro it works!

[@asdjesdsd]

worked thank you.

[@filipjtech]

You're welcome!

[@MrRobert220884]

thanks for your help with this video

[@EdgarMartinez-dd3hp]

My flash drive is full and it won't respond or open when I click it, it turns my computer white screen and will stay like that until I unplug it, what should I do? I can't format it because I have lots of important stuff on it

[@frankye112]

Thanks brother 😁

[@zerowinter5135]

Thank you very much ❤

[@JustMekayah]

it didnt work 😭

[@thephantom9227]

Your Flash drive probably fake or damaged

[@junmorales5507]

Bravo Bravo Thank you sir thank you very much! Keep up the good work.

[@aikjones1]

Was there a Mac version of this guide?

[@jrhoads9]

So now my usb won’t show up in my devices but will show up under disk part

[@johnmangubat251]

Did'nt work for my usb orico😢 it says windows was unable to complete the format😢

[@GenkiMadGaming]

Thank you!

[@filipjtech]

You're welcome!!

[@Malicious7626]

After writing clean it says Diskpart has encountered an error : Access is Denied See the System Event Log for more Information

[@WaliaIbex]

You are awesome 🎉

[@filipjtech]

You are!

[@3l3.0_n0r4]

Thanks a lot.

[@filipjtech]

Most welcome!

[@MasterChief0522]

I have a thumbdrive I tried to install Memtest on and now it is reading as two drives. It does not show up in the disk list when I run the command. I cannot format it using ImageUSB. Any suggestions? It is a 32GB thumbdrive and it is split into a 254MB and 511MB partition.

[@Who_skd]

THANKS BUDDY

[@justink1004]

Thanks man. Great video. It worked for me. I notice that there's still a small amount of used space after doing this though. Why is that?

[@pilotmisha]

Thank you!

[@owenfitzgerald3219]

Thanks for the video. I did as you said but the new USB Key that said 58GB before doing your instructions, still said 58GB after. So 🤷‍♂

[@sumdude4604]

Thanks big dog preciate it

[@robfractal6820]

Excellent worked after usb data lost after trying to load Linux os. Thanks

[@Wolf89b]

thanks for this video. :)

[@filipjtech]

You're welcome 😊

[@dakhosfate1654]

thanks bro ill keep your video in my favorites in case it happens again

[@harsh_rajput0.7]

Thank you bro yo saved me a lot of money 😇

[@filipjtech]

No problem 👍

[@carlover6701]

Can we reverse it because audio player And other old device detect but can't read😥

[@filipjtech]

It never hurts to try

[@anuragk3287]

Thankyou!

[@jacksondurranjustin]

Thanks very helpful and simple video, can use my SSD to install windows on the steam deck now :D

[@filipjtech]

Glad I could help you out

[@MelloNarY]

thank you it really helped i thought i almost basically lost money for getting a windows setup

[@filipjtech]

you're welcome !

[@PP-ow1xy]

is it only me that "bricked" my usb stick and could not even format it? (unallocated size) I had to run windows disk management tool to re-establish the volume and then I was able to format it again. I followed the instructions out of curiosity to try this tool out which I was not familiar too. Thus, I prefer the Disk Management tool myself.

[@31_harsh_nagpure_7_b6]

worked thanks youre better than of sandisk officials

[@florinrusu7226]

Thaks, if we ever meet the beer is from me ! Have a nice day !

[@ZimAntics]

Thank you

[@thabomoyo8903]

Bro u saved my usb bro i had 512 to lose thanx bro will subscribe bro 💯 💯

[@jeelahir9427]

It worked 🎉

[@Rvdzinski]

Man u saved me

[@filipjtech]

You're welcome!

[@pishposh798]

thanks

[@filipjtech]

You're welcome!

[@NoahMinthy]

Thanks man, I installed an IOS that reduced my usb from 1TB to 13 gb

[@Secret_Agentman]

Fixed my issued 100% thanks for Diskpart process! Windows disk management tool would not touch it.